The petition asking that the Senate and House Armed Services Committees compel the Army to investigate anew the death of Pfc. LaVena Johnson stands at just over thirty-five hundred names at the moment. It has taken some three months to reach this point.

Phil, you should definitely do another post about the LaVena petition soon. And make sure you remind people they can even sign it anonymously if they’re afraid to put their names to something like that these days.

I can’t help but think that if Pfc. Johnson had been a pretty young white woman, there’d have been a more intensive investigation. Maybe not, but if she’d disappeared in the States, it wouldn’t have made national news the way Natalee Holloway’s did.